Example sentences of "who tell [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 2 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 3 | who told them the truth about her letter to Sir Charles |
| 4 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 5 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 6 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 7 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 8 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 9 | It was a friend of Francis 's who told me the facts , one woman whom I do remember , though not her face . |
| 10 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 11 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 12 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 13 | Who told you the facts of life ? |
| 14 | And I assume it was your sister who told you the name of the family I was looking for ? ’ |
| 15 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |